# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-scheidel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:37:47.924Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-scheidel"
name: "Walter Scheidel"
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description: "Walter Scheidel is an Austrian historian who teaches ancient history at Stanford University, California. Scheidel's main research interests are ancient social and economic history, pre-modern historical demography, and comparative and transdisciplinary approaches to world history."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump